

winter 2012
Studios in Cartooning
These art drawings are from students in Lisa Benanto's Studios in Cartooning class at Colonie Central High School. Here, students created cartoon ink drawing characters based on the work of Tim Burton. Overall, this course is offered to Colonie Central High School students in both introductory and advanced levels. Course I is designed to further develop artistic abilities in many illustrative techniques and cartooning styles such as comic strips, action super heroes, animals, political cartoons, fantasy, paper cutouts and animation. Course II brings in storyboard development and animation in advertising, multimedia, web design and government videos while students explore a variety of career options.